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1. No 不
Let’s start with the easy one. No dates to Old English.
让我们从简单的开始。No可以追溯到古英语。
2. uh-uh 啊;哼
The imitative uh-uh is first found in its written form in the 1920s.
书面形式的uh-uh在1920年代首次出现。
3. Nix 拒绝;不行
Originally Victorian slang, nix can be compared withthe earlier German nix, which is a colloquial shortened form of nichts (‘nothing’).
最初是维多利亚时代的俚语,与德语中的nix相近,是nichts(其含义为nothing“没什么”)的口语缩写形式的。
4. nixie / nixy / nixey 不
And it wasn’t long until this slang term was given a –y/-ie suffix, used to form pet names and familiar diminutives.
没多久,这个俚语添加了-y/-ie后缀,用来作宠物姓名和熟人的昵称。
5. nope 不
The earliest sense of nope was actually another name for the bullfinch, used in the early 17th century –but fast forward to the the late 19th century and nope is being used for no, with an apparently arbitrary extension, at around the same time that yep began being used for yes.
实际上,在17世纪早期,Nope最早的含义是红腹灰雀(bullfinch)的别名。但到19世纪末期时,nope被用来表达no的意思(不),相似地,大约在同一时间,yep开始被用于表达yes(是)的含义。
6. nay 不;拒绝
This form of no is particularly characteristic of Northern English. In origin it is a borrowing from early Scandinavian (cf. Icelandic nei). You could once also nick with nay –that is, ‘answer in the negative’.
Nay的使用是英国北部语...